Sparking single payer strategies within medical societies

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Sparking single payer strategies within medical
societies

• PNHP annual conference 10/29/11, 3pm breakout
  session
• Dr Robert Zarr (Pediatrician, Washington DC)
• Dr Deborah Leiderman (Neurologist, Washington DC)
• Richard Bruno (medical student, Portland, OR)

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Agenda

• Educating and activating our fellow medical
  society members to build single payer support
  nationally through organized medicine
  infrastructure
• How do medical society members begin to
  collaborate?
• What tactics can be utilized successfully within
  medical societies?
• Interactive session

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What counts as a medical society?

• Specialty societies ACOG, AAN, American Society
  of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
• Primary care societies AAP, AAFP, ACP
• Large body societies AMA, NPA
• State/local medical societies Oregon Medical
  Association, Medical Society of Metropolitan
  Portland
• Student AMSA, AMA-MSS
• Race National Med Assoc, Natl Hispanic Med Assoc
• Issue-based PNHP, PSR, PHR, DWB, ethics, legal 
• Other American Academy of Insurance Medicine?
• Many have govt/legislative affairs arm that
  lobbies US/state congress.

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Society Member Collaboration

1. Letter to the society president (Deborah)
2. Resolutions to the member congress (Robert,
   Richard)
3. PNHP can supply list of members who self-identify
   as belonging to certain medical societies

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Example resolution

• Passed at AAFP Scientific AssemblySeptember 2011,
  Orlando, FL
• RESOLVED, That the American Academy of Family
  Physicians (AAFP) make available to constituent
  chapters and physician members educational
  resource materials about various health care
  systems including single payer health care plans.

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Medical society tactics

1. State constituencies are good starting ground
2. Building caucus of state chapter delegates to
   strategize within society/prepare for confs
3. Submitting resolution to educate or advocate for
   single payer
4. Submitting workshop proposal at confs
5. Submitting lecture suggestions at confs

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Interactive session

1. What societies represented?
2. What is structure of that society?
3. What tactics have been attempted?
4. Type up list of future tactics, collaborations,
   producibles